In our short history of space exploration, humans have already changed the Moon significantly. From the cultural heritage of our first footprints to the damage caused by the crash landings of our spacecraft, our presence is practically frozen in time in the Moon's dusty regolith.
The Moon has been in its current epoch, the Copernican, for the last 1.1 billion years. Now, researchers are arguing for the formalisation of a new epoch: the lunar Anthropocene. This epoch, the researchers argue, began in 1959 when Russia's Luna 2 spacecraft became the first craft from Earth to land on the Moon.
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